Is 3.6 being updated anymore?

Shadowphile

I'm invested in a long-term project so not willing to move to 4. I'm using the latest 3.6 but I do run into bugs and it's tiresome (or impossible) to find work-arounds. For example, when automatically re-importing a series of graphics files that I have updated, the progress bar tends to freeze about 1/4 of the way through, even though the import process is working and it eventually finished. Not a deal killer but annoying.

kuligs2

Shadowphile

Godot doesnt seem to update that often

As xyz will tell you, once you lock in the engine version for your long term project, switching to a newer version is ludicrous.

DaveTheCoder

kuligs2 As xyz will tell you, once you lock in the engine version for your long term project, switching to a newer version is ludicrous.

What does "lock in the engine version" mean?

housatic

From a quick glance at Github it looks like new features aren't being made, but bugs are still being fixed. Official stable releases just come out slowly.

You could always try building from source and see if any of your issues have been fixed (and if not, check if they've actually been reported if you haven't already)
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/3.x
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/contributing/development/compiling/

Shadowphile

housatic
Not looking for new features, just working ones but nothing I can pin down and project is getting to big to easily carve down to a minimally-viable project for the debuggers. UI sometimes hangs unpredictably. I think this is just the cost of a large project when you get into multi-dimensional corner-cases that impossible to replicate with smaller projects.
I looked over the commit log but didn't see anything that stood out to me. Thanks for the suggestion!

xyz

How about using more powerful hardware for the development?

kuligs2

DaveTheCoder Something to the note of locking in on to a target and not deviating off the path to the goal until you eliminate your enemy.

lawnjelly

Yes, absolutely 3.x is still being updated.
Admittedly at this stage it's mostly me 😃 supporting 3.x, but there are other contributors who bring in new PRs / backports / bug fixes.

3.6 is the current stable branch, we recently built 3.6.1 and there will likely be new builds soon for Android requirements for Google Play.

3.7 is the current feature branch, we'll be making a the first dev version soon (lots of features still to go though, it's a longterm project, but I'm aiming to keep the dev / beta version very usable).

You can't necessarily go by the commits, because bug fixes are often small (<50 lines of code) where for instance the current PR I'm working on is 6K lines of code, and I have another with 15K lines of code. Feature PRs tend to be bigger and take more time (weeks / months). If there aren't many commits, it's usually because I'm working on bigger areas and can't afford the interruptions for smaller PRs.

For example, when automatically re-importing a series of graphics files that I have updated, the progress bar tends to freeze about 1/4 of the way through, even though the import process is working and it eventually finished. Not a deal killer but annoying.

For bugs, these need to be reported on github, and need to be on the radar, which means they need to be correctly milestoned (3.x or 3.7) and preferably on the 3.x triage project.

Some older bugs will have slipped off the radar, unless they get bumped, it isn't obvious they are a bug fix priority, so feel free to bump bugs. I try and have a go at most, although some are outside my areas.